- UB.109T
UB.109T was a British cruise missile project. It was cancelled in 1953.
An identified operational requirement led to a request for designs for an unmanned bomb capable of delivering a 5,000 lb (2.27 tonne) conventional warhead over 465 miles (700 km) travelling at 600 mph. The specification for production was for plastic construction. [ [http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/aircraft/virtraf/730text.html] ] Guidance would be by Decca or
LORAN .Of three designs submitted, two were chosen for development.
Red Rapier from
Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Vickers 825 design powered by threeRolls-Royce Soar turbojets. [ [http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/turbines.htm Name ] ]Blue Rapier the Bristol 182 by
Bristol Aeroplane Company , with a singleBristol Siddeley engine.A proposal by
Boulton Paul , the P.123 was not accepted.History
By cancellation the Vickers 825 had reached prototype stage. The 825 was a 13 m long missile with a 10 m wingspan made from welded and formed
mild steel sections. The fuselage was rolled steel and the wing sheet steel over box spars. The wing served as the fuel tank. The three Soar engines were used, two on the tips of the tailplane, and one on the tip of the fin. The leading edges of the tailplane and fin were swept back sharply, but the wing was straight, and held to the fuselage by bombslips. Thewarhead , about one tonne, was held to the front of the fuselage by explosive bolts. In use, the wing was jettisoned at the target, and the warhead detached once the fuselage had stabilised in a dive. A simplebeam-riding control system was fitted, with range determined by a crossbeam, similar to the German X-Gerät blind bombing system. One-third scale models without engines were built and air launched from a Washington bomber (the BoeingB-29 Superfortress in RAF service) on the Woomera missile range to test the aerodynamics and autopilot operation. [ [http://www.theozfiles.com/the_drury_affair.html The Drury UFO Film Affair ] ]As the missile would fly straight and level it would have been susceptible to the same defensive measures as the
V1 flying bomb .References
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